Today George H.W. Bush becomes the oldest ex-president at 93 years, 166 days and counting. Previous record-holder Gerald Ford died at 93 years, 165 days. (He was delicious.)

That also means he's overtaken Ford's #3 position as longest-lived former Vice President. #2 is Levi P. Morton, who died on his 96th birthday, and #1 is John Nance Garner, who was fifteen days shy of 99 when he died.

She played Dina in 2017 comedy film, Girls Trip (Regina Hall, Queen Latifah, & Jada Pinkett Smith)
Last month she was the first black female stand-up comedian to host Saturday Night Live.
She is the author of December 2017 book, The Last Black Unicorn.

While not something that would generally be a Big Deal in American news, this could have political implications in Turkey, which is still (for now) one of the US's biggest Middle Eastern allies. The TL;DR here is that a police officer from Turkey, Huseyin Korkmaz, found links between a wealthy oligarch named Reza Zarrab and members of the Turkish government, as part of a gold smuggling and money laundering investigation, and now he's testifying in New York about it. The extent to which this could shake up Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's grip on power is, as yet, unknown, but is likely non-zero.

The most trivially fascinating part of this story from a linguistics-geek perspective is that the surname of the police officer ("korkmaz") translates to English as "won't be scared".

This long-extinct penguin was immense—standing nearly six feet tall and weighing more than two hundred pounds—one of the largest semi-aquatic birds to ever shuffle across the Earth.

But this particular bird is unique. It’s extremely old, being not only the earliest known giant penguin, but also one of the first penguins, period. It also belongs to a totally different branch of the penguin family tree than basically every other giant penguin.